The ISAP Board of Directors governs the Society and is composed of elected Directors, Directors appointed by Patron members, Directors appointed by Association Members, and the immediate Past-Chair. The Board also consists of ex-officio members represented by the Chairs of the ISAP Technical Committees (TC). The Board appoints the Executive Committee with powers as it shall see fit, subject to regulation of the By-Laws. The Executive Committee members include four elected officials of the Board – Chair, Vice-Chair, Secretary, and Treasurer – plus the immediate Past-Chair and Executive Administrator.
Executive Committee Members
Chair
Alan Carter
École de technologie supérieure
Canada
Dr. Carter is a full professor in the construction engineering department at Ecole de technologie supérieure (ETS) in Montreal, Canada. He earned is PhD in civil engineering from Auburn University (USA) in 2005 and his MS and BE from ETS in 2002 and 2000 respectively. Professor Carter works mostly on pavement recycling, cold and hot, on the use of alternative binders in pavement materials and on pavement reinforcement. He is the deputy chair of RILEM TC 280-CBE “Multiphase characterization of cold bitumen emulsion materials”, the chair of TG1 on cold recycling of RILEM TC-PAR “Performance-based Asphalt Recycling”, and an active member of other scientific committees. Prof. Carter is a past president of the Canadian Technical Asphalt association (CTAA), an associate editor for the Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering and a member of the editorial board of the Road Materials and Pavement Design journal.
Vice Chair
Elie Hajj
Dr. Elie Hajj is a Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department and an Associate Director of the Western Regional Superpave Center (WRSC) at University of Nevada, Reno. He has over 18 years of experience in academia and industry with an emphasis on sustainability of pavement systems, dynamic response of pavement structures, and full-scale testing of pavement systems. Dr. Hajj authored over 100 publications in journals, national and international conferences, and technical reports. He made more than 100 presentations in professional meetings, conferences, seminars, and workshops. He served as a principal investigator on multiple projects for FHWA, FAA, State DOTs, local governments, and private industry.
Dr. Hajj is a member of the Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists (AAPT), American Society for Civil Engineers (ASCE), International Society for Asphalt Pavements (ISAP), and Transportation Research Board (TRB) Committees. He is a founding member and an elected officer for the Academy of Pavement Science & Engineering (APSE). Dr. Hajj is also an associate editor for the International Journal of Pavement Engineering (IJPE).
Past Chair
Luis Loría Salazar
LANAMME University of Costa Rica
Costa Rica
Luis Guillermo Loría-Salazar earned his degree in Civil Engineering at the University of Costa Rica in 1998. In 2007 he obtained his master’s degree at the University of Nevada, in Reno, United States of America. He continued his work at the same university, and in 2011 he earned his PhD. In 2014 he was conferred the rank of professor at the University of Costa Rica. Dr. Loria-Salazar has been acknowledged as a consultant in the field of design and analysis of materials, teaching courses in several countries in the region.
Much of his professional career has been devoted to teaching at the University of Nevada in Reno and at the Civil Engineering Department of the University of Costa Rica, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
In addition to his teaching duties, he conducts research at the National Laboratory of Testing Materials and Structural Models (LanammeUCR) on Pavement Design, Science of Materials, Technical Specifications and Quality Control Methods for road projects. From this research about 152 publications have been derived, many of which have been presented at various renown international conferences and journals.
He was recently appointed as member of the Committee AFK20 (Characteristics of Asphalt Materials) and the Scientific Committee AFD40 (Full-Scale Accelerated Pavement Testing), both from the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of the United States.
Directors At-Large
Prof. dr. ir. Sandra Erkens
Professor Sandra Erkens holds the Chair of Pavement Engineering Practice at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands since 2013. Besides this position, she is the Principal Specialist Pavement Materials and Structures at Rijkswaterstaat, the Dutch highway authority.
After obtaining her PhD on the determination, modelling and prediction of Asphalt Concrete Response (ACRe), Sandra developed into an internationally acknowledged expert in pavement materials and structures in general and asphalt concrete in particular. She has coordinated the cooperation of research organizations, among others as a member of the FEHRL (Forum for European Highway Research Laboratories) executive committee and as Program Team member for InfraQuest, the cooperation between Rijkswaterstaat, TU Delft and TNO building in the Netherlands.
Prof Erkens is a member of national and international groups involved in developing technical requirements for pavement materials and in several (inter)national organizations for the dissemination of research. These include the ISAP technical committee on Constitutive Modelling of Asphalt Concrete, the organization committee of the two yearly Dutch conference on Infrastructure (CROW-infradagen) and the organizing committee of the 4th International Chinese European Worskshop on Functional Pavement Design. She has been involved in road engineering research since 1997, has published nearly two hundred papers and articles on her work and is a regular reviewer for conferences and journals on the topic.
Kazuyuki Kubo
Kazuyuki Kubo is a Vise-President of Public Works Research Institute (PWRI), which is the largest public research institute for civil engineering in Japan. He has been a pavement engineer in PWRI for more than quarter century, and has been in charge of pavement technologies in Japan. He was a main staff for ISAP NAGOYA 2010, and also promoted joint event between ISAP and REAAA (Road Engineers’ Association in Asia and Australasia) in 2013 at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He was also in charge of ISAP APE (Asphalt Pavement & Environment Symposium 2017 in Tokyo as a main member. He has been a member of Pavement Committee in Japan since 1990, and has been in charge of almost all technical standards in Japan. His research field covers almost whole pavement matters, and especially, porous asphalt pavement technology and asphalt concrete recycling are his highlights. Now asphalt concrete recycling ratio has become almost 100% in Japan, and about 80% of expressways are paved by porous asphalt concrete.
Navneet Garg
Dr. Navneet Garg is a Program Manager in Federal Aviation Administration’s Airport Technology R&D Branch at the William J. Hughes Technical Center in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and manages projects on Full-Scale Accelerated Pavement Tests, Pavement Materials, and Field Instrumentation and Testing. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1997, M.S. from Illinois Institute of Technology at Chicago in 1993, and B.E from Karnataka Regional Engineering College (now National Institute of Technology) at Suratkal (India) in 1990, all in Civil Engineering. He has been actively involved in airport pavement research at the FAA’s National Airport Pavement Test Facility since 1998, and has authored several FAA technical reports, and over 100 research papers for various peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. He has taught in airport pavement design and evaluation workshops for International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Asphalt Institute (AI), Airport Consultants Council (ACC), International Society for Asphalt Pavements (ISAP), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), and other international organizations. He is a member of the TRB Committees on Geotechnical Instrumentation & Modelling (AKG60), and Aggregates (AKM80), ASCE, ASTM, ISAP, and APSE. He is the current Chair of ASCE T&DI Airfield Pavement Committee, and Vice-Chair of ISAP Technical Committee on Pavement Field Evaluation. He is an Associate Editor of International Journal of Pavement Engineering.
James Grenfell
Australian Road Research Board
Australia
Dr. Grenfell is a Senior Pavement Engineer at ARRB (Australian Road Research Board). Since joining the pavement team in February 2017, his work has focused on current Austroads projects looking at the improving knowledge of foamed bitumen stabilised pavements and the use of lightly cemented materials in pavement construction. Prior to this Dr Grenfell spent 13 years as a researcher at NTEC (Nottingham Transportation Engineering Centre) at the University of Nottingham in the UK. During this time he worked on and managed various projects related to pavement materials. These projects involved permanent deformation and fatigue properties of asphaltic materials, moisture damage in asphalt pavements, adhesion of bitumen to aggregate, warm mix asphalt technologies, the use of crumb rubber and recycled asphalt and alternative binders. His main research interests are the fundamentals of adhesion, moisture damage of asphaltic materials, recycling and the use of secondary materials.
Prior to working at NTEC James undertook a PhD in Metallurgy and Materials. The title of his PhD was The Effect of Macroalloying on the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of γ-based Titanium Aluminides. This piece of work focused on the relationships between microstructure and mechanical properties, the application being the replacement of heavier steel parts in aero-engines.
Christiane Raab
EMPA
Switzerland
Christiane Raab’s professional experience includes: Consulting Engineer at the Consulting Company Mann & Bernhardt, Darmstadt, Germany; Senior scientist in the section road engineering/sealing components; EMPA at Duebendorf, Switzerland.
Group leader Road Materials and Pavements, EMPA Laboratory for Road Engineering/Sealing Components; Consultant for the Swiss Road Authority ASTRA, Bern, Switzerland and EMPA representative notification and certification for construction materials.
Professional Activities:
Activities focus is on project management in connection with research and development assignments, damage investigation and consulting work, particularly in the field of mechanical behaviour and road design as well as administrative work.
Coordinator of the strategic priority field “Roads” Responsibility to ensure that the various activities and orders are dealt with uniformly at the project level and for overall knowledge management in this specialist area.
Key research fields:
Work associated with investigations into the interlayer bonding of asphalt surfaces, the investigation of thin layer behaviour in paving and the long-term behaviour of surfaces and the long term performance study and evaluation of asphalt pavement constructions. Further, material and test development work in such areas as foamed bitumen and model mobile load simulator. Work on binders, sealing materials and non-destructive testing, including research work in connection with infrared thermography and polymer-modified binders.
Author of comprehensive research and expert reports as well as nationally and internationally recognised articles in German and English for specialist journals. Speaker at national and international conferences (in German and English), see list of publication and talks).
Kamilla Vasconcelos
Kamilla Vasconcelos is originally from Fortaleza, Brazil. She graduated in Civil Engineering in 2002 from Federal University of Ceará (UFC), Brazil, and spend Spring and Fall semesters of 2000 at Technische Universitat Karslruhe, Germany, in an exchange program. In 2004, she finished her Masters in Transportation Engineering at UFC, and in 2009 her PhD in Civil Engineering at Texas A&M University (TAMU), USA. In 2010 she did a Pos doc at the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil.
She is Associate Professor at the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo in the Department of Transportation Engineering and has published more than 100 technical papers in journals and conferences. She is peer reviewer in several international journals and part of the Editorial Board of Road Materials and Pavement Design (RMPD), International Journal of Pavement Engineering (IJPE), and Transportes. Kamilla is Director-at-Large of ISAP, member of TRB AKM20 Standing Committee (Binders for Flexible Pavement), and member of the AM3P Standing International Advisory Committee. Kamilla is involved in different research projects related to Transportation Infrastructure with focus on sustainability and biomaterials for pavement applications in the past years.
Gordon Airey
Gordon Airey is Director of the Nottingham Transportation Engineering Centre (NTEC) and Professor of Pavement Engineering Materials at the University of Nottingham. He also currently serves as President of the European Asphalt Technology Association (EATA), and as a Director of the Forum of European National Highway Research Laboratories (FEHRL). Gordon has been involved in pavement engineering research for over 30 years and has authored and co-authored over 350 journal and conference publications as well as contributing chapters to various pavement engineering and construction materials textbooks. His research interests include rheological assessment of bitumen, bitumen-filler mastic and asphalt mixtures; the durability of asphalt materials; the use of secondary materials (including crumb rubber, bio-binders, and waste plastic modifiers as well as recycled asphalt pavement (RAP)) in pavement applications; and the multiscale modelling and testing of bitumen-mineral aggregate systems. He has also been involved in research investigating the use of sulphur in asphalt, the use of thermodynamic approaches to moisture damage characterisation and the development of aggregate and bitumen adhesion testing methodologies. He has been principal investigator on several UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) sponsored projects as well as EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) training networks. Gordon is an active member on numerous technical committees of both ISAP and the International Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials, Systems and Structures (RILEM).
Pavel Kriz
Pavel graduated from University in Calgary with PhD degree in Bituminous Materials and joined Imperial Oil (An ExxonMobil affiliate) Research Department in Sarnia, Canada in 2009.
In 2013 Pavel took over the leadership of the asphalt laboratory team with the responsibilities ranging from conducting R&D to safe laboratory operation and people development. In 2017 Pavel become a technical leader for Americas ExxonMobil asphalt business. He managed a team responsible for a comprehensive technical support to asphalt business including crude oil assessment, refining and customer support and industry advocacy. In 2021 Pavel relocated to Prague and assumed a role of Asphalt Principal Engineer at ExxonMobil, providing senior expertise and mentorship to the global asphalt team.
Pavel has been very active in a number of industry associations. He is currently Vice President and member of the Board of Directors at Eurobitume. He has held a number of roles at the Asphalt Institute, most recently (2019 – 2022) he chaired the Technical Advisory Committee. He is an international representative at the AKM10 committee within Transportation Research Board. Over the years he authored over 30 technical papers and several patents.
Pavel is excited about joining ISAP BoD and he offers his passion for asphalt technology and industry to the Society.
Maria Carmen Rubio Gámez
University of Granada
Spain
Association Members
Richard Willis
Saied Solomons
CEO
Sabita (Southern African Bitumen Association)
South Africa
Joined Sabita in his current position during April 2009. He spent 30 years in the oil industry with an international organisation in various functions covering engineering, distribution, sales and marketing across all product lines. He later joined the executive board as the Director for HSEQ where after he moved on to take on the role of Sales & Marketing Director. He holds a BComm degree and a Civil Engineering Certificate.
Hiroyuki Masuda
Japan Road Contractors Association (JRCA)
Japan
Technical Committee Leadership (ex-Officio)
Amit Bhasin, Chair
TC on Constitutive Modelling of Asphaltic Materials
Gabriele Tebaldi, co-Chair
TC on Asphalt Pavement and Environment
Dave Eshan, Chair (Navneet Garg, Vice Chair)
TC on Pavement Field Evaluation
Executive Administrator
R. Michael (Mike) Anderson
International Society for Asphalt Pavements
R. Michael (Mike) Anderson was chosen to succeed Gene Skok as the Executive Administrator of ISAP in January 2014. Mike started his career in 1987 with the Kentucky Department of Highways as asphalt mix design engineer, following that assignment by working for HG Mays Corporation – an asphalt mix production/construction company. Since 1991 he has worked for the Asphalt Institute – currently serving as the Director of Research and Laboratory Services.
In addition to ISAP, Mike is involved in several professional organizations with an interest in asphalt technology. He is a member of the Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists (AAPT) – serving as the Association’s President in 2009 and as Executive Director since July 2013. He is a member of the Association of Modified Asphalt Producers (AMAP), Asphalt Emulsion Manufacturers Association (AEMA), Canadian Technical Asphalt Association (CTAA), and ASTM International. Mike participates in several Transportation Research Board (TRB) Standing Committee as a “Friend”, and serves as co-Chair of the Asphalt Binder Expert Task Group (ETG) and liaison to the Asphalt Mixture ETG.
He is registered as a professional engineer in Kentucky.
Executive Administrator – Emeritus
Eugene Skok
Eugene Skok received a Bachelors, Masters and PhD in Civil Engineering at the University of Minnesota in 1957, 1959 and 1969, respectively. He has worked and taught in the areas of Pavement Design, Evaluation and Engineering Materials and as a researcher. He worked at the AASHO Road Test during the construction and analysis periods in 1958-1960. He then worked for the Asphalt Institute in College Park, Maryland.
From 1963 through 1971, while at the University of Minnesota he worked on various research projects including the research used for the current Minnesota Highway Department pavement design procedure. He also did research for U.S. Forest Service, NCHRP and the Minnesota Local Road Research Board in pavement design, analysis and quality control.
In 1972 he started teaching at St. Paul Technical College where he was Head of the Civil Technology Department. He also helped start a pavement consulting firm (Midwest Pavement Management) in 1980 which was bought out by Braun Intertec in 1987.
In 1988 he became the Principle Investigator for the North Central Regional Coordination Office of the Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP). The North Central Region covers 13 states and 2 provinces. The Office was responsible for the setting up, evaluation and analysis of over 300 test sections in the region.
Since 1998 he has been a Research Associate and Adjunct Professor in the Civil Engineering Department back at the University of Minnesota. He has taught pavement and materials courses and worked on research projects including the work described in this presentation.
Dr. Skok is a Life Member of ASCE (President of the MN Section 1978-79), Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists (Secretary-Treasurer since 1969), International Society for Asphalt Pavements (Executive Administrator since 1996) MnAAPT, ASTM, TRB, MSES, Chi Epsilon. Tau Beta Pi and Plumb Bob. He was elected to the Asphalt Institute Roll of Honor in 1995.
